James Cook Quotes
The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.
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The Bookshop has a thousand books,
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I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.
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It changed the game right there. He always seems to make the big plays when we need them.
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I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.
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I know. And that's what took me so long.
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Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
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Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
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I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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Americans now believe that having equal rights in a political system also means that each person’s opinion about anything must be accepted as equal to anyone else’s.
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It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.
